AJB live commentary on QUANTUM OF SOLACE

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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Bregenz is a good location and everything but the firefight is shot well.
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Love Bond offering an opinion!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Best sequence in the movie
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Interspersing the opera drama with the action going on around it... very much like Coppola in Godfather Part 3.
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    I've seen Tosca, but it was in Prague. It's a good one.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    This is a very effective way of re-doing the traditional SPECTRE board meeting. Bond's interruption here is far more effective than in SP.
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,817MI6 Agent
    Machines that squeak. quantum’s WiFi earpieces.

    The concept of the meeting at the Opera is inspired. Pity little comes from it....

    It’s an action Sequence? Killer catering Meets fiddled fell from the roof.
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  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Number24 wrote:
    I've seen Tosca, but it was in Prague. It's a good one.

    I've heard that it isn't for everyone.
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Roof scene similar to RM in TSWLM
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    I think the gunfight could have had more air time.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    As Shady pointed out, Guy Haines = Dominic Cummings (foreshadowing?)
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Music “Restrict Bond's Movements”
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Roof scene similar to RM in TSWLM

    Yes... but subverted. Because Bond has unwittingly given the same treatment to a Special Branch officer that he gave to Sandor in TSWLM.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Music “Talamone” includes suggestions of "No Good About Goodbye"
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Mathis's ladyfriend... :x
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Mathis's dialogue here and later includes some genuine Fleming (from CR)
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    In a 90s episode of Brit cop show 'Between The Lines' Craig played an undercover Special Branch officer unwittingly exposed by the series lead cop character. The business with Haines' bodyguard reminds me of that episode.
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,817MI6 Agent
    It’s a small scene, but this business on the plane is played well.
    Nice touch reusing Vesper’s theme too...
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    The resolution on Bond's mobile phone is far from CSI standard.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Music “What's Keeping You Awake”
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    Mathis' dialogue about heroes and villains getting mixed up... straight from Fleming's 'Casino Royale'.

    Edit- as Barbel had pointed out
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Fields! :x :x :x
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    I wish The Vesper (the drink) will turn up in NTTD.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Mathis' dialogue about heroes and villains getting mixed up... straight from Fleming's 'Casino Royale'.

    Snap!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Music “Bolivian Taxi Ride”
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Fields seems a strange choice to be someone sent to bring Bond in.
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,817MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    The beautiful Gemma Arteton....

    Wish they gave her something nice to wear.
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Gemma Arterton really well cast.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Hey, where's Higgins?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Fields seems a strange choice to be someone sent to bring Bond in.

    She'd overpower him with her haughty public schoolgirl demeanour... very 'Head Prefect'. (And indeed she was in the rebooted St Trinians movies)
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
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